"Every object strives for its proper place. A……" — Vikram Seth
"Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him."
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59 Quotes by Vikram Seth
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of…
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy…
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a…
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is…
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and…
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give…
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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west,…
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade…
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I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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Haters are just confused admirers.
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Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he…
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my…
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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly…
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